Unable to chown a disk
I have many disk drives in an OWC Thunderbolt Flex 8. I had to take my Mac Studio into the "Genius Bar" and the reinstalled MacOS. This required setting up a now admin account on the boot disk. But now, some of the disks in the Flex 8 are owned by item 1. No other possible owners are listed in the info owner dropdown.
Even as root, I cannot run chown:
jamesarome@JARSTUDIO-2 ~ % cd /Volumes/MacHD3
jamesarome@JARSTUDIO-2 MacHD3 % ls -l
total 0
ls: .: Operation not permitted
jamesarome@JARSTUDIO-2 MacHD3 % pwd
/Volumes/MacHD3
jamesarome@JARSTUDIO-2 MacHD3 % sudo su
Password:
sh-3.2# ls -l
total 0
ls: .: Operation not permitted
sh-3.2# chown jamesarome:staff ./
chown: ./: Operation not permitted
sh-3.2#
I even copied the whole disk to another one, and when that was complete, the new disk exhibited the same issues. I cannot find any place to activate ignore ownership. The info pane for the disk exhibits a spinning dial trying to find the item 1 owner.
Help please!
Mac Studio, macOS 15.3
